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Ephesians  5  :  11,  12. — "  And  have  no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful 
works  o*f  darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them.  For  it  is  a  shame  even  to 
speak  of  those  things  which  are  done  of  them  in  secret" 

We  may  learn  from  the  accounts  given  by  modern 
missionaries,  as  well  as  the  writings  of  the  Apostle  Paul, 
that  the  abominations  of  heathenism  are  fearfully  great. 
Nor  is  this  astonishing.  In  the  mind  of  the  heathen 
there  exists  scarcely  any  obligation  to  restrain  passion 
and  lust.  The  only  hindrance  of  any  account  is  that 
which  society  may  impose  for  its  protection,  and  in 
many  cases  this  is  very  slight.  Of  the  obscenities  prac- 
tised in  many  parts  of  the  heathen  world  it  would  be 
improper  to  speak.  We  are  assured  there  are  images 
engraved  on  the  car  of  Juggernaut  which  could  not  be 
described  without  shocking  the  ear  and  the  heart  of  a 
refined  and  godly  people. 


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But  alas  !  what  is  true  of  heathendom  is  equally 
true  of  certain  localities  in  the  most  enlightened  and 
Christianized  parts  of  the  world.  In  London,  Paris  and 
New  York,  the  lower  depths  of  vice  and  destitution  may 
be  found  as  fully  exhibited  and  illustrated  as  they  were 
in  ancient  Ephesus  and  Kome,  as  they  are  in  modern 
Constantinople.  Pekin  or  Calcutta. 

The  subject  which  I  have  undertaken  to  discuss  is 
a  delicate  one,  and  I  will  endeavor  to  handle  it  in  such 
a  way  that  our  minds  may  not  be  offended  or  our  hearts 
injured  ;  but  that  we  may  learn  to  avoid  the  first  step 
which  leads  to  moral  degradation,  and  pity  those  who 
have  fallen  a  prey  to  crime  and  poverty. 

A  TOUR  WITH  THE  POLICE. 

Having  been  repeatedly  invited  by  one  of  the  heads 
of  our  excellent  Metropolitan  police  force  to  visit  some 
of  the  most  wretched  haunts  of  our  city,  that  I  might 
have  a  personal  knowledge  of  some  of  the  extreme 
wretchedness  which  exists  among  us,  I  summoned  up 
courage  a  short  time  since  to  go.  Several  of  the  officers 
of  our  church  accompanied  me,  and  we  were  conducted 
and  protected  by  gentlemanly  and  intelligent  represen- 
tatives of  the  police  department,  who  gave  us  much  im- 
portant and  sadly  interesting  information  concerning 
the  localities  we  visited.  Our  tour  was  made  necessarily 
in  the  evening,  as  our  object  was  to  see  the  people  as 
well  as  their  habitations. 

It  would  not  be  wise  in  a  public  discourse  to  tell 
precisely  where  we  went,  neither  can  I  desecrate  this 


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sacred  place  and  sully  your  pure  hearts  with  a  minute 
description  of  what  we  saw.  I  shall  only  give  you  a 
general  account  of  that  well-remembered  evening  walk. 

Often  had  we  heard  of  this  misery,  but  we  then  saw  it, 
and  were  constrained  to  say  to  each  other  the  half  had 
not  been  told  us.  We  went  down  into  cellars  dug  deep 
in  marshy  ground,  some  of  which  were  paved  with  cob- 
ble stones,  and  some  roughly  floored,  all  covered  with 
filth,  badly  ventilated,  and  from  which  there  met  us  as 
we  entered,  a  clamp,  close,  pestilential  air,  which  cannot 
be  described,  but  by  one  who  has  experienced  it  will  be 
held  in  lasting  remembrance.  These  subterranean  cav- 
erns probably  were  never  intended  as  places  of  abode. 
They  are  not  fit  to  be  used  as  storehouses.  The  very 
dogs  and  cats  would,  if  unmolested,  prefer  the  open 
street  as  an  habitation. 

Yet  here  we  found  human  beings — black  and  white, 
men,  women  and  children,  all  huddled  together.  They 
evinced  no  surprise  at  seeing  us  enter,  evidently  being 
well  accustomed  to  the  inspection  of  the  police  depart- 
ment. One  room  we  found  in  total  darkness,  except  as 
the  lantern  of  our  guide  threw  a  lurid  glare  upon  the 
dismal  scene.  In  another  den  a  dirty  tallow  candle, 
consumed  almost  to  the  socket,  served  to  show  that  the 
place  was  inhabited. 

The  cellars  are  about  six  feet  high,  and  divided  in 
small  apartments.  These  apartments  are  crowded 
with  sleeping  arrangements.  You  would  hardly  call 
them  beds.  They  are  rude  structures,  made  of  un- 
planed  boards,  one  tier  on  the  floor,  and  in  some  cases 


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two  other  tiers,  one  above  the  other,  over  it.  In  the 
fourth  precinct  we  are  informed  there  are  sixty  of  these 
hideous  places,  where  the  degraded  poor  and  wicked  of 
both  sexes  resort  for  lodgment,  paying  from  six  to  fifteen 
cents  a  night  each  for  the  wretched  accommodations. 
And  in  these  dens,  infesfed  with  vermin  and  subject  to 
the  most  loathsome  diseases,  are  nightly  packed  an  av- 
erage of  ten  persons  to  each  place,  and  an  aggregate  of 
six  hundred.  This,  be  it  remembered,  is  only  for  one 
precinct. 

We  are  next  led  to  some  dilapidated  tenement 
houses,  where  the  condition  of  things  is  little  or  no  bet- 
ter. "We  ascend  rickety  staircases,  fearful  every  moment 
we  will  meet  with  some  accident.  We  enter  rooms 
which  have  no  ventilation  except  from  the  narrow  door. 
The  laws  of  decency  and  morality  we  again  find  in- 
vaded, people  of  both  sexes  and  every  shade  of  color 
herding  together,  exhibiting  less  taste  and  refinement 
than  the  brute  creation.  These  close  rooms  in  many 
cases  are  warmed  with  little  open  furnaces,  standing  in 
the  middle  of  the  floor,  around  which  the  miserable 
occupants  of  the  room  are  closely  gathered,  and  from 
which  ascends  a  gas  which  stifles  those  who  are  not 
accustomed  to  it.  From  these  miserable  abodes  we 
hasten,  and  as  with  disgust  we  turn  from  the  locality, 
we  hear  some  depraved  children,  who  evidently 
surmise  the  nature  of  our  mission,  say  in  mock  solem- 
nity, "  The  miseries  of  New  York  !  "  and  our  hearts 
respond  with  emphasis — "  Amen  !  " 

We  pass  into  another  building.    In  one  of  its 


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apartments,  lying  in  a  corner,  all  cuddled  in  a  heap  and 
enveloped  in  dirty  rags  and  straw,  is  a  human  being, 
who  upon  inquiry  we  find  is  a  woman,  and  she  is  drunk. 
We  venture,  as  we  are  well  protected,  to  enter  a  drink- 
ing saloon,  where  cheap  lodgings  are  advertised.  There 
is  before  us  quite  an  array  of  dirty  decanters,  and  the 
usual  stench  of  bad  rum.  A  conspicuous  sign  announces 
that  the  proprietor  will  not  be  responsible  for  the  safety 
of  any  articles  belonging  to  his  guests  which  are  not 
especially  committed  to  his  care.  As  the  place  is  a 
noted  resort  for  rag  pickers,  beggars  and  thieves,  the 
warning  is  significant.  The  back  room  is  for  the  sleep- 
ers. As  it  is  yet  early  in  the  evening,  and  the  people 
who  frequent  this  spot  are  too  wicked  to  sleep  much, 
we  are  not  surprised  to  find  the  sleeping  apartment  va- 
cant. 

We  hasten  along,  casting  a  pitying  eye  upon  the 
poor  children  who  at  10  o'clock  at  night  are  thronging 
the  streets,  preferring  the  fresh  cold  air  of  the  outer 
world  to  the  stifling  atmosphere  of  their  homes.  Owing 
to  the  ample  arrangements  made  by  the  custodians  of 
our  peace  and  safety,  the  most  complete  order  and 
quietude  prevail  in  this  wretched  neighborhood.  The 
sturdy  police,  in  the  style  of  the  primitive  Christians, 
walk  two  by  two  in  their  nocturnal  rounds,  a  terror  to 
evil  doers,  a  joy  to  all  who  wish  to  do  and  fare  well. 

Here  we  come  to  the  abode  of  Chinamen.  Ten  or 
twelve  of  these  dusky  celestials  are  seated  around  a 
large  table,  gambling.  They  are  evidently  enjoying 
themselves  hugely.    Little  heaps  of  brass  coin,  stamped 


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with  Chinese  characters,  are  lying  upon  the  table,  and 
as  the  successful  winner  draws  from  the  store  of  his  -an- 
tagonist, he  laughs  heartily.  The  stakes  evidently  are 
sma]l,  and  the  object,  unlike  that  prevailing  in  most  of 
our  gambling  hells,  is  apparently  more  of  pleasure  than 
gain.  In  an  adjoining  room,  not  more  than  ten  feet 
square,  we  find  rude  structures  for  sleeping,  arranged 
like  others  elsewhere  described,  one  over  another,  as 
berths  in  a  vessel,  and  capable  of  accommodating  from 
twelve  to  fifteen  persons. 

Not  far  from  these  Asiatics  we  find  an  interesting 
class  of  Europeans.  We  enter  a  room  which  proves 
to  be  a  place  of  rendezvous  for  Italian  organ  grinders. 
These  industrious  musicians  are  not  the  proprietors  of 
the  machines  they  manipulate.  They  obtain  their 
instruments  here,  and  have  only  a  share  in  the  profits. 
After  their  day  of  toil  they  meet  in  this  place  to  settle 
up  accounts.  Some  of  them  lodge  here,  and,  if  they 
have  any  spare  money  after  they  have  procured  a  few 
crusts  of  bread,  they  are  invited  to  spend  it  for  rum, 
a  poor  quality  of  which  is  vended  to  them  for  a  large 
price. 

As  we  pass  through  the  streets  we  see  many  saloons, 
brilliantly  lighted,  into  which  sailors  and  others  are  de- 
coyed, and  where  they  are  filched  of  their  money,  their 
sense  and  their  virtue.  In  one  of  these,  keeping  time 
to  marrow-bone  music,  are  some  twenty  young  girls 
dancing.  I  will  not  describe  them.  A  glance  through 
the  open  door  is  sufficient.  This  is  one  of  those  dens 
of  infamy  of  which  Solomon  speaks  when  he  advises  the 


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young  man,  "  Avoid  it,  pass  not  by  it,  turn  from  it  and 
pass  away.  For  they  sleep  not,  except  they  have  done 
mischief ;  and  their  sleep  is  taken  away,  unless  they 
cause  some  to  fall.  For  they  eat  the  bread  of  wicked- 
ness, and  drink  the  wine  of  violence."  God  have  com- 
passion on  the  poor  inmates  of  this  earthly  hell,  who 
perhaps  would  fain  get  out  of  the  pollution  if  they  knew 
how  ;  and  upon  the  silly  and  wicked  dupes  who  permit 
themselves  to  be  enticed  in  this  maelstrom  of  iniquity  ! 
But  we  can  hardly  pray  for  mercy  upon  that  fiend  in 
human  form  who  keeps  this  brothel,  and  enriches  him- 
self by  destroying  others,  body  and  soul.  You  will  be 
surprised  and  shocked  to  learn  that  this  man  was  once  a 
preacher  of  the  gospel.  He  has  amassed  considerable 
wealth,  and  one  of  these  days  may  live  in  style  on 
Murray  Hill,  or  stand  in  the  halls  of  legislation  as  one 
of  our  city  representatives.    Thus  we  drift  along. 

We  have  seen  enough,  and  more  than  enough.  We 
can  now  believe  what  we  have  often  been  told  by  those 
whose  business  it  is  to  keep  these  iniquities  in  abey- 
ance so  far  as  the  lax  laws  of  our  State  will  enable 
them.  Their  stories  are  not  exaggerated.  Alas  !  they 
are  too  true. 

Fellow-citizens,  and  Christian  men  and  women,  we 
advise  you  not  to  visit  these  places  of  sin  and  shame. 
Unless  "God  in  his  Providence  directs  you  to  go  to  per- 
form some  bounden  duty,  we  beg  you  to  stay  away. 
It  is  always  dangerous  for  the  most  virtuous  to  come  in 
contact  with  pollution.  Neither  would  we  advise  you 
to  read  minute  accounts  of  this  degradation.    You  will 


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incur  fearful  risks  in  perusing  the  story  of  demoraliza- 
tion. But  you  ought  to  know,  you  cannot  but  know, 
that  these  places  of  wretchedness  exist  hard  by.  There 
are  general  facts  which  should  be  brought  to  your  view 
that  you  may  appreciate  your  duty  not  only  to  the  fall- 
en, but  also  to  those  who  are  young  and  exposed  to 
temptation.  Hence  it  is  we  now  address  you  on  this 
heart-sickening  subject. 

In  looking  at  the  lower  depths  of  this  metropolis, 
you  will  notice  there  are  apparent  two  conditions  by  no 
means  identical,  although  they  flow  together, — I  mean 
the  condition  of  want  and  the  condition  of  crime.  Let 
us  glance  at  them  separately. 

WANT. 

According  to  the  last  United  States  census,  taken 
in  the  year  1860,  the  population  of  this  city  was  813,- 
669.  The  number  is  now,  no  doubt,  largely  increased. 
It  is  supposed  we  have  over  a  million  of  inhabitants.  So 
crowded  are  we  that  there  are  on  the  average  three 
families,  and  fifteen  individuals  in  every  house  in  the 
city.  There  are  15,000  tenement  houses,  containing 
in  the  aggregate  486,000  people.  Some  of  these  houses, 
as  we  have  seen,  are  more  than  full.  Comfort,  decency, 
and  morality  are  sacrificed.  And  in  these  miserable 
abodes  whom  do  we  find  ?  The  poor  emigrant,  who  has 
been  fleeced  by  the  sharpers,  and,  ignorant  of  our  lan- 
guage and  customs,  is  a  prey  to  every  species  of  dis- 
honesty.; the  lone  widow,  who  has  pawned  her  fur- 
niture, dresses,  and  jewelry,  to  buy  bread  for  her  hungry 


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children  ;  the  wretched  consumptive,  who  in  his  lin- 
gering illness,  has  spent  all  the  savings  of  years  ;  the 
aged,  whose  children  have  died,  or  worse  than  that, 
have  with  ingratitude  and  brutality  turned  their  old 
parents  out  to  feed  on  the  sympathies  and  charities  of 
the  world  ;  the  lazy  and  unthrifty,  who  have  gathered 
from  all  parts  of  the  land  in  the  great  metropolis,  ex- 
pecting to  find  gold  rolling  at  their  feet — these  and 
countless  others,  who  are  not  be  reckoned  as  criminals, 
but  unfortunates,  are  with  time,  and  by  the  force  of  cir- 
cumstances, crowded  closer  and  closer  together.  They 
are  in  an  iron  room,  which  every  day  by  a  spring  brings 
its  sides  nearer,  and  which,  unless  help  is  afforded,  will 
eventually  crush  them.  Do  you  hear  the  moans  and 
sobs,  the  wails  and  shrieks  of  those  dying  poor  ? 
Turn  not  away  with  loathing  and  disgust  because  your 
sense  of  refinement  is  shocked,  for  they  are  your  fellow- 
beings.  Say  not  they  are  the  authors  of  their  own  mis- 
fortunes. That  may  be  the  case  with  some,  but  not 
all,  and  in  no  case  is  it  a  valid  cause  for  indifference. 
Think  not  these  people  are  criminals.  Do  not  associate 
'the  sick,  and  aged,  and  disheartened,  and  down-trodden 
poor  with  the  licentious.  Do  not  classify  the  starving 
seamstress  with  the  vile  street-walker,  or  the  sick  me- 
chanic with  the  drunkard. 

Hear  that  cry  of  distress.  Look  down  into  those 
lower  depths  of  poverty.  See  that  array  of  men,  wo- 
men, and  children,  all  members  of  the  human  family, 
freezing,  starving,  filthy,  helpless.  As  they  sink  into 
the  deep  mire,  they  stretch  out  their  hands,  and  plead  to 
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you  for  help.  It  is  not  only  the  image  of  grim  want 
you  see,  and  the  prayer  of  the  suffering  and  dying  you 
hear.  Those  spectre  forms  are  gliding  on  the  verge  of 
ruin  worse  than  death.  That  earnest  appeal  is  the  last 
cry  of  tempted  innocence.  Would  that  it  might  dis- 
turb the  slumbers  of  our  wealthy  who  recline  upon 
downy  beds,  and  luxuriate  in  spacious  parlors  !  The 
crowded,  filthy,  badly  ventilated,  wretchedly  contrived 
tenement  houses  of  this  city  are  more  than  a  disgrace 
to  the  community.  They  are  a  standing  reproach 
against  our  rich  men,  who  ought,  for  the  sake  of  hu- 
manity, to  be  using  their  surplus  funds  in  erecting 
cheap  and  comfortable  residences  for  the  poor  all  over 
the  island  of  Manhattan,  and  in  the  suburbs  of  our  city. 
These  men  seem  to  be  destitute  of  mind  as  well  as  soul. 
Cannot  they  see  that  our  overflowing  population  is 
rapidly  passing  from  poverty  to  crime,  and  the  few  dol- 
lars they  are  saving  by  their  parsimony  to  leave  to 
prodigal  heirs,  is  converting  thousands  into  beggars, 
thieves,  prostitutes,  and  murderers?  Are  they  so  short- 
sighted that  they  cannot  behold  the  pestilence  and 
famine  hovering  like  vultures  around  their  anticipated 
victims,  and  threatening  to  depopulate  us  ? 

We  all  have  a  duty  to  perform  toward  the  many 
thousands  of  destitute  ones  in  this  city  and  vicinity. 
We  are  not  merely  to  sympathize  with  them  every  time 
the  thermometer  approaches  zero,  or  pray  daily  and 
fervently  as  we  think  of  their  condition,  "  God  bless  the 
suffering  poor  !  "  This  is  all  well  enough  ;  but  it  is 
not  sufficient.    We  ought  to  use  our  minds  and  bodies, 


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our  money  and  influence  for  their  immediate  relief, 
and  their  permanent  elevation.  It  is  our  duty,  through 
the  press,  the  platform  and  the  pulpit,  to  call  loudly 
for  reform.  At  the  ballot  box  we  must  secure  the  ser- 
vices of  men  of  intelligence  and  integrity,  who  will  pro- 
vide us  with  wholesome  sanitary  laws,  and  see  that 
they  are  properly  enforced. 

A  great  advance  has  lately  been  made  in  this  direc- 
tion. The  appointment  of  new  health  officers  and  the 
extraordinary  powers  with  which  they  are  vested,  has 
given  very  general  satisfaction.  We  need  a  reform. 
It  is  not  merely  the  flapping  of  the  wings  of  the  vul- 
ture Pestilence  which  should  alarm  us.  Our  comfort, 
morality,  and  decency,  as  well  as  our  health  demand  a 
reform.  And  we  will  have  it.  Soon  we  hope  the  nui- 
sances to  which,  we  have  referred  will  be  swept  away 
entirely  and  forever  by  our  courageous  Sanitary  Board. 

But  there  is  a  work  also  for  us  to  do.  We  are  to 
help  mould  public  opinion.  We  are  to  countenance 
our  Board  of  health.  We  are  as  Christians  to  do  what 
lies  in  our  power  to  reach  the  suffering  poor.  We 
should  strive  to  raise  them  from  their  abject  degrada- 
tion, and  help  them  onward  in  the  path  of  sobriety  and 
holiness.  We  ought  to  use  the  appliances  already 
initiated,  and  contribute  largely  to  the  support  of  those 
numerous  and  well  regulated  Institutions  and  Societies 
which  take  under  their  guardianship  the  children  of 
want.  Our  church  deacons  should  be  well  supplied 
with  funds,  and  urged  to  diligence  as  well  as  prudence 
in  providing  for  the  indigent  in  the  fold  of  the  Good 


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Shepherd.  The  number  of  our  faithful  colporteurs  and 
Bible  readers  should  be  largely  increased,  and  they 
should  be  well  balanced,  having  tracts  and  Bibles  in 
one  pocket,  and  in  the  other  a  plentiful  supply  of  bread, 
milk,  and  coal  tickets.  Our  mission  churches  and  Sab- 
bath schools  should  be  indefinitely  multiplied,  and  in 
connection  with  them  the  degraded  poor  be  educated 
to  thrift  as  well  as  piety.  Every  one  of  us  should  be  a 
missionary.  If  every  Christian  in  New  York  would 
spend  an  hour  each  week  in  looking  around  him,  he 
would  be  a  wiser,  better,  and  more  useful  man  ;  and  if 
he  would  find  some  poor  person  or  family,  and  interest 
himself  in  their  welfare,  be  would  be  a  Good  Samaritan 
whom  God  would  delight  to  honor  and  bless. 

This  is,  my  friends,  a  religious  duty.  I  exhort  you 
to  receive  my  words  not  as  those  of  a  mere  philanthro- 
pist, but  as  one  who  comes  to  you  from  God  with  the 
everlasting  gospel.  I  am  now  preaching  to  you  Chris- 
tian duty,  that  which  our  dear  Saviour  taught,  and 
largely  exemplified.  You  are  to  save  the  souls  of  men 
through  their  bodies  ;  and  bodies  and  souls  are  all  valu- 
able in  the  sight  of  God  who  has  made  them. 

CRIME. 

But  more  upon  this  point  as  we  proceed  to  glance 
at  the  lower  depths  of  crime  in  this  great  metropolis. 

You  need  take  no  lengthy  journey  to  discover  the 
prominent  and  fruitful  source  of  crime  here  and  else- 
where. It  is  intoxicating  drink.  When  this  goes  in  a 
man's  mouth  sense  usually  goes  out  of  his  mind  and 


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integrity  leaves  his  heart.  This  is  emphatically  true 
of  those  liquors  which  are  vended  in  small  measures. 
These  are  fearfully  drugged,  as  any  one  may  learn  who 
will  take  the  trouble  to  investigate.  Our  Police  Com- 
missioners in  their  last  annual  report  truthfully  say  : 
"  The  excessive  use  of  intoxicating  drinks  is  the  great- 
est evil  to  which  communities  are  exposed.  To  it  may 
be  traced  much  the  largest  share  of  poverty,  disease  and 
crime,  public  disorder  and  moral  degradation  which  so 
much  afflict  society."  This  traffic  is  evidently  on  the 
increase.  Money  is  made  by  it,  and  this  is  a  sufficient 
inducement  for  people  destitute  of  conscience  to  en- 
gage in  it.  An  inquiry  instituted  in  May  last  by  the 
Metropolitan  Police  Department  shows  that  at  that 
period  there  were  in  New  York  9,270  places  where  in- 
toxicating drinks  were  sold.  Of  this  number  but  754 
claimed  to  be  doing  business  under  a  license,  showing 
that  8,516  were  in  violation  of  the  law.  The  result  of 
this  immense  and  unlawful  traffic  appears  in  our  large 
criminal  calendar,  our  eighteen  million  tax,  our  fast 
increasing  pauperism,  and  in  the  shame  and  ruin  of 
countless  men,  women  and  children. 

What  is  to  be  done  ?  Would  that  every  drop  of 
that  which  will  inebriate,  from  hard  cider  and  the  purest 
wine  to  the  strongest  gin  and  vilest  whiskey,  was  in  the 
bottom  of  the  deepest  sea,  and  the  receipt  for  making 
it  was  forever  consigned  to  the  department  of  the  lost 
arts  !  But  this  will  never  be  while  Satan  is  per- 
mitted to  walk  this  earth  as  the  prime  mover  of  wick- 
edness.    This  is  too  efficient  an  agency  for  him  to 


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dispense  with.  We  must,  therefore,  battle  the  evil  as 
best  we  can.  If  we  can  get  a  prohibitory  statute  which 
will  rule  it  out  except  for  medicinal  and  mechanical 
purposes  we  will  rejoice.  But  until  this  can  be  ob- 
tained we  will  hail  with  joy  the  new  excise  law. 

Practically,  this  business  has  of  late  been  subject  to 
no  restrictions  in  this  metropolis.  Any  person  could 
obtain  a  license,  or  any  person  could  with  impunity  sell 
without  a  license.  The  police  declared  their  hands 
were  tied.  They  could  not  arrest  for  this  class  of 
offences  without  warrant,  and  applications  for  warrants 
to  police  magistrates  were  useless,  because  these  officials 
were  under  the  control  of  the  liquor  dealers  and  con- 
sumers. 

Blessed  be  God,  there  is  a  change  !  Our  heart  was 
overflowing  with  gratitude  when  the  daily  *paper  in- 
formed us  of  the  passage  of  the  new  act  to  regulate  the 
sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  within  the  Metropolitan 
Police  District  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

This  act  confers  upon  the  efficient  Metropolitan 
Health  Board  the  sole  right  to  give  or  withhold  licenses. 
It  provides  that  no  person  in  the  cities  of  New  York 
and  Brooklyn  shall,  after  May  1st,  publicly  keep,  sell, 
give  away  or  dispose  of  any  strong  or  spirituous  liquors, 
wines,  ales  or  beer  in  quantities  less  than  five  gallons 
at  a  time,  unless  he  has  obtained  a  license,  and  the 
license  fees  have  been  fixed  at  $100  for  the  sale  of  ale 
and  beer,  and  $250  for  spirituous  liquors. 

The  prominent  features  of  this  elaborate  and  strin- 
gent law  are  as  follows :    No  liquor  shall  be  sold  on  the 


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Sabbath,  or  on  any  election  day  within  a  quarter  of  a 
mile  of  the  polls,  or  between  the  hours  of  twelve  o'clock 
at  night  and  sunrise.  No  person  shall  sell  or  give 
intoxicating  drinks  to  any  youth  under  eighteen  years 
of  age  against  the  will  of  his  parent  or  guardian,  nor  to 
an  habitual  drunkard,  nor  to  any  one  while  under  the 
influence  of  intoxicants  ;  neither  may  any  one  sell  to  a 
husband  against  the  request  of  his  wife,  or  to  a  wife 
against  the  request  of  her  husband.  All  persons 
licensed  are  held  responsible  for  any  disorder  which  may 
occur  upon  their  premises.  They  are  compelled  to  keep 
a  certificate  of  their  license  posted  in  a  conspicuous 
place  in  the  room  where  they  vend  their  liquors,  and  in 
case  they  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  act  they 
shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  from  $30  to  $50  for  each 
offence,  o^imprisonment  from  ten  to  thirty  days,  or  to 
both  fine  and  imprisonment.  Bills  for  the  sale  of 
liquors  in  quantities  of  less  than  five  gallons  are  not 
collectable. 

Any  person  may  enter  a  complaint  against  another 
for  the  violation  of  this  law,  and  in  case  of  conviction, 
if  he  is  not  a  police  officer,  will  be  entitled  to  one-half 
the  fine  imposed.  It  is  made  incumbent  upon  every 
sheriff,  policeman  and  officer  of  police  to  compel  the 
observance  of  this  act.  And,  further,  all  who  vend 
liquors  shall  be  held  responsible  for  any  damage  which 
may  be  sustained  in  consequence  of  such  sale,  and  the 
parties  offending  may  be  sued  in  any  court,  and  the 
sums  recovered  shall  be  given  to  the  injured  and  com- 
plaining party.    It  is  estimated  that  this  act  will  close 


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up  at  least  four  thousand  of  the  ten  thousand  dram 
shops  now  open,  and  bring  in  a  revenue  by  the  sale  of 
licenses  of  more  than  a  million  of  dollars. 

This  law  is  none  too  stringent.  Long  enough  have 
wives  and  parents  and  friends  groaned  under  the  influ- 
ence of  this  pestilent  traffic.  Long  enough  have  the 
community  suffered  from  brawls,  disorders,  pauperism, 
a  fearful  waste  of  money,  and  every  species  of  crime 
without  any  corresponding  compensation,  and  with  no 
power  of  restriction  and  defence.  The  cry  of  the  suffer- 
ing has  gone  up  to  to  the  court  of  Heaven,  and  been 
registered  there,  and  to  every  heartless  rum-seller  justice 
has  been  or  will  be  meted  out  by  the  Higher  Power. 
And  we  heartily  rejoice  that  at  last  we  have  been  able 
to  reach  the  ear  of  the  legislative  authority  of  earth  as 
well  as  Heaven,  and  that  this  wise  and  ben^icent  act 
has  been  passed.  All  praise  to  the  New  York  Legisla- 
ture of  1866  ! 

It  now  remains  to  be  seen  how  well  this  law  will  be 
executed.  We  believe  it  will  be  rigidly  enforced.  The 
members  composing  the  Board  to  whom  its  administra- 
tion is  committed  have  displayed  courage  and  fidelity  in 
the  discharge  of  other  important  and  difficult  duties. 
No  doubt  they  will  prove  themselves  equal  to  this 
emergency.  They  will  be  sustained  by  the  most 
respectable  of  the  liquor  dealers,  from  motives  of  policy, 
and  by  the  mass  of  good  citizens,  from  motives  of  integ- 
rity and  philanthropy. 

And  shall  not  the  people  of  God  of  every  persuasion 
rally  around  the  administrators  of  justice  and  reform, 


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and  by  their  individual  and  combined  influence  assist 
and  encourage  them  ?  Let  others  consider  the  im- 
mense curtailment  of  taxes  and  the  dimunition  of  crime. 
So  may  we.  But,  beyond  all  this,  it  is  for  those  who 
love  Jesus  and  his  cause  to  consider  chiefly  the  bearing 
of  this  law  upon  the  souls  of  men.  The  liquor  dealer's 
soul  is  in  jeopardy.  Indeed,  we  fear  in  the  case  of  many 
of  them  the  soul  has  become  so  shrivelled  that  it  will 
never  recover  itself  until,  by  the  light  of  the  great  day, 
God  shall  make  it  visible.  If  there  is  anything  calcu- 
lated to  belittle  a  man,  it  is  dealing  out  poison  by  the 
glass  to  the  poor  trembling  inebriate.  For  the  sake  of 
the  thousands  of  traffickers  in  this  vile  business  let  us 
help  to  put  it  down.  And  for  the  sake  of  the  drinkers, 
whether  they  are  young  or  old,  whether  tipplers  or 
topers,  let  us  help  to  execute  this  excellent  law. 

But,  if  possible,  there  is  a  lower  depth  than  this. 
Brutal  as  is  the  rum-seller  and  his  victim,  they  do  their 
work  openly.  But  there  are  hidden  works  of  darkness, 
of  which  we  hear,  but  which  escape  the  public  eye.  If 
we  may  rely  upon  police  investigations  and  medical  tes- 
timony, there  are  between  four  an*d  five  thousand  fe- 
males in  the  city  of  New  York  who  are  professional  pros- 
titutes. How  many  haunts  of  iniquity  there  are  we 
know  not,  nor  how  many  thousands  of  men  and  youth 
resort  to  them.  Nor  can  we  tell  how  many  women 
who  are  supposed  to  be  virtuous  frequent  these  places 
of  sin  and  shame.  It  is  enough  for  us  to  know  that 
about  five  millions  of  dollars  are  invested  in  this  city  in 
this  nefarious  business  ;  that  the  victims  of  both  sexes 


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are  numbered  by  thousands,  and  that  at  a  fearful  rate 
the  lost  ones  are  travelling  to  perdition. 

Shall  we  avoid  this  subject  because  it  is  delicate, 
and  possibly  some  one  will  be  offended  ?  Does  the 
Bible  avoid  it  ?  Do  not  reason  and  philanthropy  and 
religion,  all  bid  us  utter  the  warning  voice  ?  Who  is 
safe  ?  Alas  !  no  one.  The  young  and  old,  the  rich 
and  poor,  the  educated  and  the  illiterate^  the  virtuous 
as  well  as  licentious,  are  all  in  danger.  Permit  me 
then  to  utter  the  seasonable  note  of  warning.  Eemem- 
ber  the  look  of  lust  is  sin.  Heed  the  admonition  given 
by  Paul  to  the  Colossians,  "  Mortify  therefore  your 
members  which  are  upon  the  earth  :  fornication,  un- 
cleanness,  inordinate  affection,  evil  concupiscence  and 
covetousness  which  is  idolatry  ;  for  which  things  sake 
the  wrath  of  God  cometh  on  the  children  of  disobedi- 
ence." If  Sodom  and  Gomorrah  were  consumed  with 
fire  on  account  of  their  inhabitants  "  giving  themselves 
over  to  fornication,  and  going  after  strange  flesh,"  is 
there  not  danger  that  this  polluted  city,  so  given  to 
lust,  may  experience  a  similar  destruction  ? 

And  rememberf  beloved  youth,  although  you  may 
never  plunge  into  the  lower  depths  of  sin  according  to 
the  reckoning  of  society  ;  if  from  your  exalted  height 
of  privilege,  and  with  all  the  warnings  uttered  in  your 
hearing,  and  with  all  the  safeguards  which  surround 
you,  you  still  yield  to  temptation,  and  at  last  fall  a  prey 
to  lust,  in  the  eyes  of  God  you  will  be  a  far  greater  sin- 
ner than  the  Sodomite  was,  and  the  base  character  of 
the  present  day  is,  who  has  been  born  and  bred  in  ob- 


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scurity,  and  you  will  find  at  last  a  lower  depth  in  hell  than 
that  which  is  awarded  him.  I  beg  you  shut  your  eyes  and 
ears  and  heart  against  the  least  temptation,  and  fortify 
yourself  by  an  immediate,  firm,  and  eternal  trust  in 
Jesus. 

But  what  can  be  done  for  those  who  are  now  sunk 
in  pollution  ?  Shall  we  permit  the  daughters  of  perdi- 
tion, the  average  tenure  of  whose  professional  life  is 
only  four  years,  to  go  down  to  the '  grave  and  eternal 
infamy  without  an  attempt  to  save  them  ?  Shall  we  do 
nothing  to  stop  this  iniquitous  business  which  is  the 
ruin  of  all  who  participate  in  it  ?  Does  not  a  regard 
for  the  safety  and  morality  of  our  children  in  the  fu- 
ture demand  that  an  effort  be  made  to  check  this 
evil  ? 

The  Police  report,  to  which  we  have  referred,  makes 
this  terribly  suggestive  remark :  u  The  philanthropist 
and  Christian  would  be  pained,  and  even  men  of  the 
world  would  be  astonished,  at  learning  the  class  and 
character  of  the  customers  of  these  dissipated  places. 
What  seems  the  best,  most  cultivated,  and  highest 
circle  of  society,  has  more  than  its  share  of  representa- 
tives among  the  frequenters  of  these  shameless  haunts 
of  dissipation  and  debauchery/'    We  reiterate  the  dec- 

m 

laration  of  the  report :  u  Some  law  ought  to  be  framed 
at  once,  and  vigorously  executed,  to  break  up  and  ut- 
terly suppress  these  attractive  schools  of  vice  and  im- 
morality." 

Go  to  Black  well's  Island,  and  your  heart  will  be 
filled  with  pity  for  the  dregs  of  New  York  society  which 

»■  ,'  T. 


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there  find  a  temporary  home.  The  five  hundred  wom- 
en sent  there  as  vagrants  are  immortal  beings.  Many 
of  them  are  intelligent.  Some  of  them,  you  will  dis- 
cover as  you  talk  to  them,  are  not  entirely  lost  to  de- 
cency and  shame. 

Be  charitable  towards  them.  They  are  none  of  them 
worse  than  was  Mary  Magdalene,  out  of  whom  were  cast 
seven  devils,  and  who  subsequently  became  one  of 
Christ's  most  devoted  and  loving  disciples.  Think  too 
of  that  wretched  woman  brought  before  the  immaculate 
Saviour  with  the  charge  that  she  had  been  taken  in  the 
very  act  of  adultery,  and  who  did  not  presume  to  deny 
the  accusation.  Did  Jesus  spurn  her  from  his  presence  ? 
What  said  he  to  her  accusers  ?  "  He  that  is  without 
sin  among  you,  let  him  first  cast  a  stone  at  her."  What 
a  lesson  is  that  for  us  !  Yes  for  us.  Examine  your 
heart,  and  see  if  it  is  free  from  lust.  And  what  said 
Christ  to  the  woman  ?    "  G-o,  and  sin  no  more." 

Let  us  imitate  the  forgiving,  loving  Saviour.  Let  us 
say  to  these  abandoned,  fallen  creatures,  "  Neither  do 
we  condemn  thee  ;  go  and  sin  no  more."  This  duty  of 
reclaim  devolves  with  peculiar  propriety  and  power 
upon  Christian  women.  Too  long  have  the  modern 
Maries,  Marthas  and  Lydias  neglected  this  their  ap- 
propriate field  of  labor.  A  man,  no  matter  how  vile 
he  may  be,  if  he  repents  and  reforms  is  admitted  to 
society,  and  encouraged  to  persevere  in  virtue  and 
holiness.  But  a  fallen  woman  is  spurned  as  if  she 
were  a  leper.  No  Christian  sister  says  to  her  in  the 
words  of  the  Kedeemer,  "  Go,  and  sin  no  more."  Is 


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this  right  ?  Is  it  in  accordance  with  the  dictates  of 
Christianity,  or  even  humanity  ?  Oh,  Christian  wom- 
en, listen  to  the  touching  appeal  made  in  behalf  of 
these  poor  outcasts — 

"  Think  gently  of  the  erring  ; 

Ye  know  not  of  the  power 
"With  which  the  dark  temptation  came 

In  some  unguarded  hour. 
Ye  may  not  know  how  earnestly 

They  struggled,  or  how  well, 
Until  the  hour  of  weakness  came, 

And  sadly  thus  they  fell. 

* 

"  Think  gently  of  the  erring; 

Oh,  do  not  thou  forget, 
However  darkly  stained  by  sin, 

She  is  thy  sister  yet. 
Heir  of  the  self-same  heritage, 

Child  of  the  self-same  God  ; 
She  hath  but  stumbled  in  the  path, 

Thou  hast  in  weakness  trod. 

"  Speak  gently  to  the  erring  ; 

For  is  it  not  enough 
That  innocence  and  peace  have  gone — 

"Without  thy  censure  rough  ? 
It  sure  must  be  a  weary  lot 

That  sin-crushed  heart  to  bear; 
And  they  who  share  a  happier  fate, 

Their  chidings  well  may  spare. 

"  Speak  kindly  to  the  erring  ; 

Thou  yet  may'st  lead  them  back 
With  holy  words  and  tones  of  love 
From  misery's  thorny  track. 


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Forget  not  thou  Last  often  sinned, 

And  sinful  yet  must  be ; 
Deal  gently  with  the  erring  one 

As  God  hath  done  with  thee.' 

We  rejoice  that  many  are  beginning  to  learn  a«xl  to 
practise  a  better  way.  Some  years  ago  a  Magdalen 
Benevolent  Society  was  organized  in  this  city,  which  has 
since  been  quietly  but  efficiently  operating  among  this 
class  of  wicked  unfortunates.  Quite  lately  the  "  New 
York  Women's  Evangelical  Mission  "  has  been  inaugu- 
rated, the  appropriate  motto  of  which  society  is  "  Haste 
to  the  rescue,"  and  which  is  well  represented  by  ladies 
from  this  and  other  Churches  in  this  great  metropolis. 
We  bid  these  organizations  "  God  Speed,"  and  urge 
you  to  cooperate  with  the  self-denying  persons  who  are 
willing  to  follow  Jesus  in  such  labors  of  love. 

We  doubt  not  many  dens  of  infamy  will  now  be 
broken  up.  Our  Board  of  Health  cannot  do  every- 
thing ;  but  they  will  doubtless  accomplish  much  in 
this  as  well  as  other  directions.  Help  them.  Follow 
in  their  track.  Finish  what  they  begin.  Seek  the 
fallen  ones,  and  spare  no  pains  to  allure  them  back  to 
virtue  and  piety. 

We  have  thus  endeavored* slightly  and  delicately  to 
remove  the  veil,  and  show  you  a  little  of  the  miseries 
of  New  York.  You  have  seen  the  lower  strata  of 
society.  You  behold  how  misfortune  and  crime  stand 
side  by  side,  the  one  dragging  the  other  down  to  ruin. 
I  trust,  attentive  hearer,  your  heart  is  interested,  and 
that  you  will,  while  you  yourself  avoid  the  slippery 


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paths,  endeavor  to  direct  the  young  and  unwary  in  the 
right  way,  and  if  possible,  arrest  those  who  already  are 
travelling  the  broad  road  which  leads  to  death. 

God  will  bless  such  noble  efforts.  And  should  it 
be  your  lot  to  raise  some  of  these  fallen  creatures  from 
the  lower  depths  and  lead  them  to  the  cross  of  Calvary, 
how  perfect  will  be  your  joy  when  you  finally  stand 
with  them  before  the  throne  of  God,  beholding  them 
clothed  in  the  snow-white  robe  of  Jesus'  righteousness, 
and  hearing  them  sing  in  sweeter  than  angel's  tones, 
"  Unto  Him  that  loved  us,  and  washed  us  from  our 
sins  in  his  own  blood,  and  hath  made  us  kings  and 
priests  unto  God  and  his  Father  :  to  Him  be  glory  and 
dominion  forever  and  ever.  Amen." 


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